Iry-Hor
Companion of Horus / Leo
(Written actually Hor -iri, rare Irihor ) Iri -Hor, read as Ro, possibly an ancient Egyptian king (Pharaoh) of the 0 dynasty ( Prädynastik ). In Egyptology its existence is, however, casting some doubts as king. Some scholars see in it an individual or merely a property advertisement.
- 5.1 General Literature
- 5.2 Special literature
Documents
Iri -Hors name appears roughly carved in clay on vessels that originate from the double grave B1 and B2 as well as the tombs of the kings Ka and Narmer at Abydos. In the grave of Narmer was found a clay seal whose imprint consists of the hieroglyphs " hawk" and "mouth". An identical clay seal was found in Zaujet el- Arjan. His name also appears in a rock inscription in the Sinai. There, next to the word White brick wall (the old name of Memphis ) the name is on a boat, written. From Iri -Hors time, the earliest evidence of the terms " Schemau " for Upper Egypt and " Mehu " for Lower Egypt come.
Name and identity
At the reading of the name
Iri -Hors name is composed of the Gardiner sign G5 for " Horus falcon " and D21 for " mouth " together. While today's current reading of the name " Iri -Hor ", it was about Flinders Petrie and Werner imperial times still "Ro", as this - in addition to the phonetic value of "r" - was the usual reading of the mouth hieroglyph. Werner Kaiser and Günter Dreyer interpret and translate Iri -Hors name as " companion of Horus", while Jürgen von Beckerath Horus Ra reads and translates it as "speaker" and, alternatively, with " head ". Toby A. H. Wilkinson again reads " Iri -Hor ". Ludwig D. Morenz may commit to no transcription and suggests a neutral reading as " Horus mouth " before.
Identity
Iri -Hors name has not yet been found in a royal Serech, so that a reliable identification as king for the time being remains difficult. Egyptologists as W.M.F. Petrie, Laurel be stock and Jochem Kahl still see him as an independent ruler. They point to the distinctive spelling of Iri -Hors name: The Horus falcon holds the mouth icon in its talons. On several Tonsiegeln this character group is accompanied by a second, free-standing word- symbol. This notation is reminiscent of numerous anonymous Serechs that are held by a Horus falcon and in which individual hieroglyphs are close to it ( instead of within the Serechs ). Therefore, the argument is the lack of a Serechs conclude the existence of a king of the name is insufficient. Egyptologists have concluded out that had not yet penetrated to Iri -Hors times of Serech as canonized King of Arms.
Other Egyptologists, including Peter Kaplony, however, suspect that the name of a private person whose name is to be read wr r3.
Toby AH Wilkinson sees " Iri -Hor " no name at all, but a possession and display appropriately translated with " possession of the King". Based on its assessment, the place in the Prädynastik use the falcon as a hieroglyph for the word " king". Ludwig D. Morenz and Kurt Sethe tend in a very similar direction and doubt Iri -Hors identity as king also increases. Morenz, for example, suspects that if the mouth icon is not simply a phonetic complement to Horus falcon. Kurt Sethe sees the group of characters as a source indicator.
Possible burial
Iri -Hors possible grave plant in Umm el- Qaab, Tomb B, consists of two chambers (B1 and B2). It was excavated around 1901 by Flinders Petrie and assigned by Werner Kaiser Iri -Hor under the name "King Ro ".